Russian and French diplomats and friends of diplomats are taking oil bribes in the millions of dollars from Saddam and the UN Oil-for-Food farce.
Seriously we're talking $10 Billion (with a B) dollars is the estimate of how much Saddam skimmed off the program. Let's look at the KNOWN MALFEASANCES before we worry about drawn out conspiracy theories.
I suppose I should make some witty comment about the lame nick you've voluntarily chosen yourself.
A nick like 'The Confused One' is like taking a humble name. It helps to give you perspective.
The whole "war for oil" diatribe is just soooo yesterday. Since the whole UN Oil-For-Palaces (UNscam) fiasco has started blowing up in the faces of the UN, France, and Russia we see who was really pushing for oil in Iraq. None other than France with a deal negotiated for Total-Final-ELF that gave France profit margins unheard of in a normal deal. France's requirement, lifting sanctions on Iraq.
Obviously if you applied ANY critical thought to this you'd see that if we really wanted to control Iraq's oil we could have very easily cut a nice lucrative deal with Saddam, dropped the sanctions, and let by-gones be by-gones.
Of course we'd have to live with those profits to Iraq going to North Korea to buy long range missiles and those $25,000/suicide bomber payments that Hussein was making.
But hey, we're just a horribly corrupt county that is run by it's oil companies.
(Nothing like the UN that made $1.2 billion on the Oil-for-Food program in "administrative fees" and evidence suggesting that the head of the program received a couple of million dollars in oil vouchers as well.)
The "purging" was a state required removal of people with felony records who were not allowed to vote. A number of in depth analyses have been performed on this purge and they found that more felons voted illegally than disenfranchised people.
As the ol' maxim says, "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time."
So you're trying to tell us that the US is currently sufferring from crushing economic conditions placed upon us by a foreign power after a defeat during a world war?!?
I think you need another layer of tinfoil on the ol' beanie. It's been fun chatting.
and be thought a fool then to open your mouth and dispose all doubt."
Complete horsecrap.
Tell you what, when we start feeding people into industrial shredders and have mass graved being dug up in DC then you can compare the US government to that of the "enlightened" Hussein.
Until such time, and such time as you actually have to worry about being tortured or "disappeared" for voicing any negative opinion you can take your "totalitarian" crap and shove it.
You realize that there was a rather simple way to get the access to that "sea of oil under Iraq"?
All we had to do was get the UN to rescind the sanctions. Hell, look at the sweetheart deals that Total-Final-ELF had negotiated back when it was still a French-owned company.
Sorry to go and ruin a perfectly good diatribe with facts...
A cluster isn't a computer in the traditional sense. It's better for many tasks but worse for some as well.
It's better in that it is not a single monolithic device that can fail and can be built and scaled as needed. It's worse in that it requires different management tools and techniques due to the multiplicity of systems involved. It also fails in the tasks where a single large shared memory is required.
The great thing is that almost all problems today can be handled using a cluster arrangement and thus resources can be saved. The bad thing is that less Cray's will be sold.
Really, they should ask themselves that. Are they just riding the latest political outrage wave or have they done an honest analysis of "outsourcing/offshoring" from which to launch their documentary?
The fact is the trend that we're decrying right now is both nothing new, and isn't going to go away. Businesses will always go to the cheapest place to manufacture their goods, be that changing states for better tax breaks or building overseas for cheaper labor.
So, a good question would be: What would the effect be to the US economy if all current "out-sourcing" projects were halted?
What has the effect been on the US economy from historical "out-sourcing"?
A really, honest, in-depth analysis could make a nice documentary, however a Michael Moore-ish hatchet job won't contribute to the dialog one bit.
get an 802.11g wireless DVD player that already streams video from Gateway.
They upgraded from b to g to give the bandwidth to stream video AND it's a progressive DVD player too. OK, so maybe SlimDevices gets the cool "geek" factor, but really shouldn't we look at the device that has more functionality for less $$$'s?
(Prepares for the avalanche of "you don't read SlashDot do you?" responses...)
They had both JavaScript and VBScript in them to handle the different way both browsers did certificate requests. Heck I've got code on my computer from 1997 where I tweaked pages like that.
Sure, take the MS proceeds and cancel ads for a week. But even better is to take the SCO reward money and use it to fund an expose.:-D (And no you slashbots, that doesn't mean photoshopping Darl's head onto a naked body...)
At the time I was trying to do digital certificate-based security and IE simply sucked for handling certs. Export? Whuzzat?
IE *ONLY* succeeded becuase they were able to throw over $1 billion at trying to get it right and run the competitor off the field. Please point me to the "technologically superior" piece of software that led MS to write a letter to Compaq (at that time the #1 OEM PC seller) informing them that their Windows license was going to be cancelled unless they stopped hiding the IE icon and promoting Netscape.
No, IE has become a decent piece of software that I use only when I absolutely have to. (Mainly to test that my pages do display under IE or use something that requires ActiveX.)
OK, the time is speculative and maybe they do use the same dispenser.
Your point about McD's cups is also speculative. I recall them actually being quite difficult to open unless you wanted to. So your "guaranteed spills" argument falls by the wayside.
Why do we continue to scream "THIRD DEGREE BURNS"? Is it the severity of the injury that makes it so egregious? Would it have been OK if the company was negligent but the lady only got a little scalded by it instead? Also your 'internal injuries' argument is a crock (or should that be Krok?:-D) as we all do the ol' sip it first to see if it's hot routine.
The single biggest problem with this whole incident and lawsuit is that there was no responsibility taken by the lady for spilling the damn cup of coffee in the first place. (If the cups were so "obviously defective" then how come millions of people managed to drink their coffee in their cars each day without experiencing a similar accident?)
The FDA may have complained to McDonald's about the coffee being hot but I haven't seen anything about them actually violating any FDA rule about serving temperatures.
Sure they may have acted like the callous large corporation and the victim was grievously injured and was a little old lady to boot.
The problem remains that the liability for the act remains largely that of the person handling the coffee and not the person who gave them the coffee in the first place.
You example is one where the act of the corporation is in fact blatantly illegal rather than possibly an exercise of poor judgement.
Amazing. The fact is that McD's was selling the coffee to people who were going through the drive thru and usually weren't even getting to drink it for awhile.
It's a well established fact in life that if you spill a hot liquid on yourself then you're going to get burned. A corollarly to this well established fact is that you shouldn't use your legs as a cup holder when hot liquids are concerned.
I mean hell, by your reasoning if someone happened to carry home a jug of bleach on their head and they spilled it in their eyes then Clorox should be sued for all their worth.
I find that you using a web browser, the internet, and web servers to post a diatribe about how lousy the "post war world" is terribly ironic.
Try to look past the end of your nose and if you think it's all tired crap then try to change it. (The tools that allow your message to be heard are 1000 times better today than in the "pre war world"
I think the trick with TOS, TNG, and DS9 was that they were only drawing on events to make parallels rather than clubbing us over the head with them.
Enterprise did one thing even worse, the "technology'll get us out of this jam" routine. I mean, c'mon, they were able to defeat the bloody Borg (the doc even purged what were now strangely slow moving nano probes out of his system). Need to sneak into a place? Fortunately someone left their cloaking pod and we'll just borrow that (and oh yeah, an overload in it will cloak someone's arm...)
So what do we get now? Star Trek: Law & Order (plots ripped STRAIGHT FROM TODAY'S HEADLINES!!!)
The whole idea of Star Trek was to escape from today's problems, not bask in them with transporters.
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Really really lame.
Russian and French diplomats and friends of diplomats are taking oil bribes in the millions of dollars from Saddam and the UN Oil-for-Food farce.
Seriously we're talking $10 Billion (with a B) dollars is the estimate of how much Saddam skimmed off the program. Let's look at the KNOWN MALFEASANCES before we worry about drawn out conspiracy theories.
I suppose I should make some witty comment about the lame nick you've voluntarily chosen yourself.
A nick like 'The Confused One' is like taking a humble name. It helps to give you perspective.
The whole "war for oil" diatribe is just soooo yesterday. Since the whole UN Oil-For-Palaces (UNscam) fiasco has started blowing up in the faces of the UN, France, and Russia we see who was really pushing for oil in Iraq. None other than France with a deal negotiated for Total-Final-ELF that gave France profit margins unheard of in a normal deal. France's requirement, lifting sanctions on Iraq.
Obviously if you applied ANY critical thought to this you'd see that if we really wanted to control Iraq's oil we could have very easily cut a nice lucrative deal with Saddam, dropped the sanctions, and let by-gones be by-gones.
Of course we'd have to live with those profits to Iraq going to North Korea to buy long range missiles and those $25,000/suicide bomber payments that Hussein was making.
But hey, we're just a horribly corrupt county that is run by it's oil companies.
(Nothing like the UN that made $1.2 billion on the Oil-for-Food program in "administrative fees" and evidence suggesting that the head of the program received a couple of million dollars in oil vouchers as well.)
Dude, take a chill.
The "purging" was a state required removal of people with felony records who were not allowed to vote. A number of in depth analyses have been performed on this purge and they found that more felons voted illegally than disenfranchised people.
As the ol' maxim says, "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time."
...a huge bump in PowerBall tickets being bought this week...
Hey, I've now replaced that Viper on my list of the "When I win the lottery..." cars.
So you're trying to tell us that the US is currently sufferring from crushing economic conditions placed upon us by a foreign power after a defeat during a world war?!?
I think you need another layer of tinfoil on the ol' beanie. It's been fun chatting.
and be thought a fool then to open your mouth and dispose all doubt."
Complete horsecrap.
Tell you what, when we start feeding people into industrial shredders and have mass graved being dug up in DC then you can compare the US government to that of the "enlightened" Hussein.
Until such time, and such time as you actually have to worry about being tortured or "disappeared" for voicing any negative opinion you can take your "totalitarian" crap and shove it.
You realize that there was a rather simple way to get the access to that "sea of oil under Iraq"?
All we had to do was get the UN to rescind the sanctions. Hell, look at the sweetheart deals that Total-Final-ELF had negotiated back when it was still a French-owned company.
Sorry to go and ruin a perfectly good diatribe with facts...
A cluster isn't a computer in the traditional sense. It's better for many tasks but worse for some as well.
It's better in that it is not a single monolithic device that can fail and can be built and scaled as needed. It's worse in that it requires different management tools and techniques due to the multiplicity of systems involved. It also fails in the tasks where a single large shared memory is required.
The great thing is that almost all problems today can be handled using a cluster arrangement and thus resources can be saved. The bad thing is that less Cray's will be sold.
Really, they should ask themselves that. Are they just riding the latest political outrage wave or have they done an honest analysis of "outsourcing/offshoring" from which to launch their documentary?
The fact is the trend that we're decrying right now is both nothing new, and isn't going to go away. Businesses will always go to the cheapest place to manufacture their goods, be that changing states for better tax breaks or building overseas for cheaper labor.
So, a good question would be: What would the effect be to the US economy if all current "out-sourcing" projects were halted?
What has the effect been on the US economy from historical "out-sourcing"?
A really, honest, in-depth analysis could make a nice documentary, however a Michael Moore-ish hatchet job won't contribute to the dialog one bit.
They're probably stuck with trying to re-implement the package handlers so they can preface everything with gnu/ :-D
Obviously you haven't read close enough and Supes wasn't clear enough when writing up his powers.
:-D
He's BULLET-proof, not GUN-proof.
get an 802.11g wireless DVD player that already streams video from Gateway.
They upgraded from b to g to give the bandwidth to stream video AND it's a progressive DVD player too. OK, so maybe SlimDevices gets the cool "geek" factor, but really shouldn't we look at the device that has more functionality for less $$$'s?
(Prepares for the avalanche of "you don't read SlashDot do you?" responses...)
...would be a tad more dramatic then wouldn't they?
Though the really great thing is that you could use the ol' tinfoil beany to actually reflect the "mind control waves" then.
as prior art.
They had both JavaScript and VBScript in them to handle the different way both browsers did certificate requests. Heck I've got code on my computer from 1997 where I tweaked pages like that.
Ummm, so what did MS use to restrict the CIFS license from implementation under Open Source?
Oh yeah, a patent.
DOS = Denial of Spirits?
Though in deference, the FBI didn't so much knock as kick the darn door in.
Sure, take the MS proceeds and cancel ads for a week. But even better is to take the SCO reward money and use it to fund an expose. :-D (And no you slashbots, that doesn't mean photoshopping Darl's head onto a naked body...)
Man I remember IE 3.0 quite fondly. NOT!
At the time I was trying to do digital certificate-based security and IE simply sucked for handling certs. Export? Whuzzat?
IE *ONLY* succeeded becuase they were able to throw over $1 billion at trying to get it right and run the competitor off the field. Please point me to the "technologically superior" piece of software that led MS to write a letter to Compaq (at that time the #1 OEM PC seller) informing them that their Windows license was going to be cancelled unless they stopped hiding the IE icon and promoting Netscape.
No, IE has become a decent piece of software that I use only when I absolutely have to. (Mainly to test that my pages do display under IE or use something that requires ActiveX.)
OK, the time is speculative and maybe they do use the same dispenser.
:-D) as we all do the ol' sip it first to see if it's hot routine.
Your point about McD's cups is also speculative. I recall them actually being quite difficult to open unless you wanted to. So your "guaranteed spills" argument falls by the wayside.
Why do we continue to scream "THIRD DEGREE BURNS"? Is it the severity of the injury that makes it so egregious? Would it have been OK if the company was negligent but the lady only got a little scalded by it instead? Also your 'internal injuries' argument is a crock (or should that be Krok?
The single biggest problem with this whole incident and lawsuit is that there was no responsibility taken by the lady for spilling the damn cup of coffee in the first place. (If the cups were so "obviously defective" then how come millions of people managed to drink their coffee in their cars each day without experiencing a similar accident?)
The FDA may have complained to McDonald's about the coffee being hot but I haven't seen anything about them actually violating any FDA rule about serving temperatures.
Sure they may have acted like the callous large corporation and the victim was grievously injured and was a little old lady to boot.
The problem remains that the liability for the act remains largely that of the person handling the coffee and not the person who gave them the coffee in the first place.
You example is one where the act of the corporation is in fact blatantly illegal rather than possibly an exercise of poor judgement.
Amazing. The fact is that McD's was selling the coffee to people who were going through the drive thru and usually weren't even getting to drink it for awhile.
It's a well established fact in life that if you spill a hot liquid on yourself then you're going to get burned. A corollarly to this well established fact is that you shouldn't use your legs as a cup holder when hot liquids are concerned.
I mean hell, by your reasoning if someone happened to carry home a jug of bleach on their head and they spilled it in their eyes then Clorox should be sued for all their worth.
MS is using two obsolete patents it owns in an attempt to club Samba.
MS ever-so-graciously decided to publish their CIFS protocol and license it to anyone EXCEPT OSS projects. (Or as they called them "viral licenses".)
MS is not above using patents to club the competition into submission.
...against all the OTHER copyright holders who contributed to Linux?
Remember, SCO's claims invalidates their rights to distribute Linux.
I find that you using a web browser, the internet, and web servers to post a diatribe about how lousy the "post war world" is terribly ironic.
Try to look past the end of your nose and if you think it's all tired crap then try to change it. (The tools that allow your message to be heard are 1000 times better today than in the "pre war world"
I think the trick with TOS, TNG, and DS9 was that they were only drawing on events to make parallels rather than clubbing us over the head with them.
Enterprise did one thing even worse, the "technology'll get us out of this jam" routine. I mean, c'mon, they were able to defeat the bloody Borg (the doc even purged what were now strangely slow moving nano probes out of his system). Need to sneak into a place? Fortunately someone left their cloaking pod and we'll just borrow that (and oh yeah, an overload in it will cloak someone's arm...)
So what do we get now? Star Trek: Law & Order (plots ripped STRAIGHT FROM TODAY'S HEADLINES!!!)
The whole idea of Star Trek was to escape from today's problems, not bask in them with transporters.